{"id":14289,"date":"2007-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20070808-02n"},"modified":"2007-08-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:00:00","slug":"cargill-opens-rd-lab-for-biobased-polyols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cargill-opens-rd-lab-for-biobased-polyols\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargill opens R&amp;D lab for biobased polyols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cargill.com\/\" >Cargill<\/a> deepened its commitment to biobased polyols development this week by opening the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioh.com\/\" >BiOH<sup>TM<\/sup><\/a> Polyols Research &#038; Development Center<\/i> with a staff of scientists focused on developing new polyol products and commercial applications for biobased polyols. The 19,000-square-foot facility in Plymouth, Minn., includes a pilot production area to simulate customer production plants for testing of new products.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have built a world class R&#038;D center to support the growth of a world class bio-based polyols business,&#8221; said Yusuf Wazirzada, business manager for biobased urethane polyols at Cargill. &#8220;This marks another milestone in our commitment to bring a more responsible choice to the polyurethane industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although initially launched in flexible foam for automotive, bedding and furniture, Cargill\u2019s goal is to leverage the technology to replace petroleum-based polyols in a wide range of urethane applications, from rigid foams to elastomers. &#8220;This new facility will reduce the time it takes us to go from concept to trial and increase the likelihood of success,&#8221; said Ricardo De Genova, technical manager for the BiOH business and director of the new lab.<\/p>\n<p>De Genova, who spent 21 years in polyurethanes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dow.com\/\" >The Dow Chemical Company<\/a>, calls the BiOH product line a &#8220;step change&#8221; in polyurethane innovation. &#8220;This is truly new, not just incremental change,&#8221; he said, &#8220;You can do things with this chemistry that you can\u2019t do with petroleum. The potential is unlimited.&#8221; Derived from natural vegetable oils such as soybean oil, BiOH polyols can deliver unique performance benefits while helping customers reduce their environmental footprint and market themselves to downstream customers.<br \/>ion Award.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact<\/b><br \/>Cargill<br \/>phone: 001-1-877-765-92 46<br \/>e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:customerservice_polyols@cargill.com\">customerservice_polyols@cargill.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cf.news of <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cargills-biobased-polyols-win-us-award\/\" >2007-07-11<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/basf-financing-biopolymer-research\/\" >2007-05-31<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/uk-ifs-starts-manufacturing-polyol-from-rape-seed-oil\/\" >2007-05-18<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cargill deepened its commitment to biobased polyols development this week by opening the <i>BiOH<sup>TM<\/sup> Polyols Research &amp; Development Center<\/i> with a staff of scientists focused<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14289"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}